What to cook with pumpkin: 7 delicious and healthy dishes

Pumpkin is a valuable product. The vitamins and trace elements contained in it help children stay healthy even during colds, adults - not to gain excess weight and stay young longer, and the elderly - to protect themselves from atherosclerosis, hypertension and insomnia. And you can also cook delicious dishes from pumpkin that will please all members of your family.

Pumpkin is suitable for preparing absolutely any dish. If you set yourself a goal, this fruit alone will help set a chic table. For the first one you can serve puree soup with pumpkin bread, for the second - khanum, fragrant pickled pumpkin and, of course, pumpkin salad. And for sweets - marmalade and spicy pumpkin cookies.

Puree soup with pumpkin and croutons

Ingredients

400 g fresh pumpkin;
1 carrot;
1 onion;
2 potatoes;
sunflower oil;
100 ml of 10% cream;
150 g small croutons;
2 cloves of garlic;
salt, black pepper, hard cheese - to taste.

Preparation

Chop the onions thinly. Preheat a frying pan, add a little sunflower oil and fry the onion for a few minutes. Then peel and cut the pumpkin, carrots and potatoes into small cubes.

Put fresh vegetables together with fried onions into a saucepan, pour in a little water and cook until tender. Add finely chopped garlic to the resulting mixture, pepper and salt. After that, beat the future puree soup with a blender and add cream.

The finished dish is served with crackers and grated cheese. The puree soup can be garnished with herbs and sesame seeds.

Pumpkin bread in the oven

Ingredients

80 g pumpkin;
70 ml of water;
3 g dry yeast;
300 g wheat flour;
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
10 g butter.

Preparation

Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and mash in a blender. Add water and whisk again. In a separate container, combine flour, yeast, salt and sugar, add pumpkin mixture and pre-softened butter.

Knead the dough to a dense, homogeneous consistency and place in a greased container. Cover the dough with a dry towel or cling film and leave in a warm place for 2 hours. During this time, preheat the oven to 220 ° C and prepare a baking dish lined with baking paper.

After the dough rises, form a loaf out of it, put it in the finished form and leave in a warm place for another 40-50 minutes. Now that the dough is completely ready, it can be placed in the oven. Bake the pumpkin bread for 50 minutes. Cool the finished product on a wire rack.

Khanum with pumpkin

Ingredients

For the test:

1 glass of water;
3 cups flour;
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg.

For filling:

500 g pumpkin;
2 onions;
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
black pepper to taste.

For the sauce:

150 g sour cream;
1 tablespoon of finely chopped greens
1 clove of garlic;
salt, pepper - to taste.

Preparation

Khanum is a delicious and quick oriental dish, an excellent alternative to mantas. To prepare it, knead a dough of flour, water, eggs and salt. Knead the dough for at least 15 minutes, it should become elastic. Then cover the mixture with a towel and leave for 40 minutes.

For the filling, cut the pumpkin into small cubes and the onion into thin half rings. Lightly brown the onion in a preheated skillet, then add the pumpkin to it. The time for frying and mixing the ingredients should not exceed 5-10 minutes. Sprinkle the finished filling with pepper, salt and sugar.

Roll out the dough thinly, grease generously with vegetable oil. Spread the filling over the surface, slightly stepping back from the edges. Roll up a loose roll and tuck the edges of the dough on the sides. Place the roll carefully on a greased tray.

Khanum is cooked in a mantle or double boiler for 45-50 minutes. Cut the finished dish into pieces and serve with a garlic sauce of sour cream and herbs.

Pickled pumpkin

Ingredients

700 g pumpkin;
300 g sugar;
500 ml of water;
100 ml 9% vinegar;
8 pieces of cloves;
4 allspice peas;
4 black peppercorns;
1-2 slices of ginger root;
2 pinches of nutmeg;
1 cinnamon stick

Preparation

Pickled pumpkin has a pleasant sweet and sour taste and aroma of fragrant spices. This dish is served as a side dish or as a savory snack.

Dissolve sugar in water at room temperature, add vinegar and pour the pumpkin cut into small pieces (about 2 × 2 cm) with the resulting marinade. Cover the container with a lid or cling film and refrigerate for 12 hours.

Then add spices to the pumpkin and bring the mixture to a boil over medium heat. Reduce the heat and cook the pumpkin for another 7-15 minutes, until the pieces are easily pierced with a fork.

Let the boiled vegetable brew under the lid for half an hour, then remove the spices and place the pieces in a sterile sealed container. The pickled pumpkin is ready and ready for your table!

Pumpkin salad with cheese

Ingredients

200 g pumpkin;
100 g of brine cheese (feta cheese, suluguni, Adyghe, chechil, feta);
20 g olives;
olive oil, Mediterranean herbs, salt, pepper - to taste;
lettuce leaves - optional.

Preparation

This salad is made in a hurry. It will perfectly decorate any table and will win the hearts of your guests with its unusual taste. So. Cut the pumpkin and cheese into 1–2 cm pieces, and combine with the olive oil, seasoning, and halved olives. You can decorate the finished dish with lettuce leaves.

Pumpkin marmalade

Ingredients

1 kg pumpkin;
500 g sugar;
½ lemon.

Preparation

Choose a saucepan with a wide, thick bottom. Cut the pumpkin into cubes, boil in a little water for 10 minutes and puree with a blender. Add sugar to the finished mixture and cook for half an hour over low heat, stirring constantly. Then add ½ lemon and simmer for an hour. The finished marmalade will easily come off the sides and bottom of the pot.

Place the pumpkin marmalade on parchment (the thickness of the layer should not exceed 2 cm) and leave to dry for 3-5 days. Then cut it into slices, dry on both sides in a weakly heated oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Store homemade pumpkin marmalade in a cool dry place.

Spicy pumpkin cookie

Ingredients

1 egg;
100 g pumpkin puree;
70 g butter;
110 g cane sugar;
180 g wheat flour;
½ teaspoon baking powder;
¼ teaspoon of baking soda;
1 g vanillin;
a pinch of ground cloves;
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Preparation

Mash softened butter with sugar and vanilla. Then add the egg, pumpkin puree (boil the peeled pieces until tender and grind in a blender) and mix all the ingredients thoroughly.

Pour flour, cinnamon, ground cloves sifted with baking powder and baking soda into the first part of the resulting product and mix everything well again. On a baking sheet covered with baking paper, place the finished dough with a tablespoon so that the future cookies are at an average distance from each other. Bake for 20 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C.

Bon Appetit!